The Crucible: Women's Rights In Modern Society

In several parts of the world, women are still treated as subordinates to men. This been accompanied by several issues of oppressions, humiliation, discrimination, control, exploitation, and violence. Women are being treated unequally when it comes to their basic rights to food, education, healthcare, and employment opportunities. The men make all the decisions when it comes to the control of productive resources in the society, they hold the most powerful positions, and they look down to women because of their gender differences. Gender based discrimination has been on the spread as they have become more accepted in modern societies.

During the Progressive era women had to endure a lot of suffering due to poor living conditions, illness, earning wages no matter what age or race they were. Women activists decided it was time to start speaking out and protesting to receive more equality in society. Different groups of activists, made up of women, fought for women’s rights socially, economically, and politically. Some activists were better known for women’s sexuality. Jane Addams was one of the first women activists who fought for equal wages for women.

Ahead of Her Time Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman exhibits an effective utilization of talk through contentions defending the training of ladies in the eighteenth century. The verifiably conspicuous writer, Wollstonecraft, built up her expository piece in light of the ideas in England and France that encased the Enlightenment period. Drawing from other known works and social feelings, Wollstonecraft makes contentions that will effectively contact her target group. In Vindication, expository interests, for example, ethos, logos, and tenderness play upon the crowd. Mary Wollstonecraft wants a world in which teaching ladies will prompt liberation.

In Canada in 1972 the act for "equal justice under law" called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was passed. Despite the fact that women have contended energetically for fairness with respect to balance in workforce there is far to go. Some of the barriers women faces are lack of education in equality, having to leave work for family and society. This holds them back from being empowered and from reaching the top. Their barriers are stopping them from getting to the top and causes underrepresentation of women.

Women throughout history have undergone specific personal experiences that have constrained them within a society that epitomizes the dehumanization of women through forced social expectations. My mother reiterates this continual theme as a woman in the US and abroad who have experienced constraint from living in a man's world but has also benefited from woman’s liberation within her culture/home life, as well as, education/the workforce. Through each of these three aspects of her life, she was able to experience forms of liberation, as well as, constraint based on a variety of factors which have related to many different readings we have had the opportunity to study in class. Her personal experiences have related to the experiences of many

Americans in Western states have had womans rights for almost 20 years longer than those in the east. The United States was very progressive with Women's Rights, some parts more than others. Wyoming was the first state to pass the Women's Suffrage Act, this was in 1869 ( Imbornoni ) It was not until 1917 that any state in the east passed the bill, and the first was New York. Between those two times, 11 other states in the West had already passed the bill.

Explain Why Women Were Becoming Increasingly Concerned With Their Rights in the Early Twentieth Century In the early twentieth century, women began to change their views on their rights, and defy what was expected of them. The roles of women in the nineteenth century led to this, and the first example of women going against their roles was the Match Girls’ Strike, and later on the formation of the suffragists and the suffragettes. Women in the nineteenth century, for the most part, had to or were expected to follow the roles presented to them by society. They were to become housewives, without following further education or a career.

In the 19th century women were not given the rights that they deserve. they were never given the chance to prove themselves. Men did not value women as much as we do today. women were only valued as nurses, cashiers, store clerks and cleaners. They were unvaluable.

as they did not gain or keep the access to the professionals nor did they come close to earning equal pay for the same type of work if they continued to hold their jobs after the men returned. Because of the frustrations held by these women, it the led to the start of feminist movements. The late 1950s and 60s became years of change for women with people becoming more vocal about equal rights for women. This led to President Kennedy, in 1961, establishing the Commission on the Status of Women which examined issues relating to women because of the growing interest in women’s rights (Sink).

A lot of buzz has been created in the last few years over the word Feminism. Feminism which is all about fighting for equal rights for women and empowering them is often sensed wrong by our male chauvinist or to say male dominated society. However, the discussion is not always for the right reasons. Feminism the word often comes into the discussion for it’s over hyped status in this contemporary society and often people think that women play it as a victim card to their advantage.